Umami Mart

Super cute store with a nice bar in the back. Lots of cool Japanese items, including alcohol. I spent an hour at the bar drinking a sake flight and talking to Ian, the manager and bartender. Definitely a cool guy, we talked different Japanese alcohols and it was a great time. All in all, highly recommended you come and try it out!

Incredible sake collection and great gifts. Something for everyone, from $5 coasters to $20-$50 beautiful kitchen gadgets to $100+ knives. Great one stop shop for any kind of party

Fantastic experience with my wife. Thank you for the personal service, Kayoko. Your business is a gem.

My favorite hangout spot in Oakland. Awesome little shop in the front with a small selection of beautiful, simple houseware items and a massive wall of Japanese liquors. Fantastic bar in the back with some of the coolest bartenders in the area spinning great records. Love this place so much.

Great place for sake tasting!

If you have slightest interest in sake, shochu, or Japanese whisky, you could not ask for a better group of people than the ones at Umami Mart. Prepare to find the perfect drink!

The store is also just gorgeous, with lots of Japanese glassware, kitchen supplies, and some specialty grocery items. There is even a bar in the back where they were playing some chill beats. Will definitely go again!

The store is beautiful and clean. The staff were very kind and cheerful! They have a great collection of different sake and other drinks (loved the sparkling yuzu drink *it's like a Japanese lemon) and the culinary wares they sell are high end and quality! Definitely recommend stopping by and even just looking around! They have tonnes of cute and beautiful stuff.

What a great store! There should be a mart dedicated to umami in every city! Love that they also have a solid collection of Japanese craft beers. Really enjoyed the soy sauce tasting too. So many fruity and spicy flavors in the different soy sauces. You can also order from them online.

Wonderful store with excellent staff and service, the website works very well for buying online and picking up in store and they put together my order very quickly. I had an issue with one of my products and was able to exchange it with ease. They stock some of my favorite Japanese whisky, suntory toki, at a very fair price as well!

This store is a fantastic spot to grab a nice gift. There are cool mugs, vases, knives, and a variety of other elegant and classy options. For day to day shopping, there are Japanese snacks and lots of sake, beer, and whisky. Note that have beer in a cooler, so you can pick it up cold. Friendly and warm staff as a bonus! I definitely recommend checking this place out.

As a first sake experience this was super mellow and welcoming. The bartender Brad was very chill and informative.
We learned sake is complex and unusual in the best way, it can taste like sweet fruit or the rind of cheese.
Umami Mart is half tastingbar and half retail. The entire space was well laid out. Lots of great options to start your sake quest, as well as gifts for your F&F.

Fantastic little shop with a great selection of sake and Japanese snacks, as well as beautifully designed ceramic dishes and cups. I love the homey feel and the people are really nice. If I could, I would hang out here all day!

Best place in the Bay Area to buy sake, period. The new location has a cool little bar, the staff is knowledgeable and friendly, and their sake Gumi membership is fantastic way to find new and interesting sakes. Highly recommended, I'd give 6 stars if I could.

Top notch curation with a wide breadth of knowledge. Highly recommend for experts and novice alike. Sara gave me an in depth 101 on how to venture into sake - even teaching me how to read the important characters in Japanese. So kind and a real professional. Hard to find places like this, so please support them!

Good selection of Sake, Shochu, Japanese Whiskey, and Japanese Beer. There are also some primo soy sauce and other culinary enhancers to be found in addition to bar ware and tenugui. Before the pandemic they also had a lovely tasting bar in the back to sample different sake, Shochu, etc. They are primarily doing curbside pickup now, but definitely waiting in anticipation for that tasting bar to reopen.

I've been a Sake Gumi, the Sake of the month, member for a little while now and I couldn't be happier. Yoko and staff are knowledgeable and make great suggestions for pairings with Sake. Yes, Sake is delicious paired with more than just Sushi or Sashimi.

They have a great selection of hard to find Japanese beers here and other items. The selection for the amateur bar tender, or even mixologist, is hard to beat.

They have a great selection of Japanese wares and an even greater selection of sake, shoju, and beer. The space is beautiful and immaculate and the staff is super friendly and helpful. What a great addition to the neighborhood!

The team at Umami Mart do such an amazing job bringing well-curated bits of Japanese culture home to Oakland. Their tableware and barware are fantastic, the books and gifts interesting (some really nice furoshiki!). But the jewel is their selection of sakes and sochu, and, with the new location, their REALLY convivial sake bar in back. This really is the best of Oakland!

Love this cute little foodie shop in the heart of downtown Oakland. Great for presents for your foodie friends or for yourself.

Very friendly and helpful staff, a heavily curated collection of largely Japanese-oriented cooking and dining supplies and accessories. I loved their ceramic and glassware particularly, which were lovely and reasonably priced.

The little food stand they have out front had some delicious asian fusion tostadas for sale that were the perfect snack after shopping there.

One of the few, if not only, japanese shops to have items from the far east to locally sourced. Shurbs, exotic barware, snacks, coffee beans, and bitters. As of late, varieties of sake and brews have appeared. A nice collection of books for mastering drinks sits upon the wall.

Some of my best gifts from here. Here's hoping to years more of such.